UKCG Mobile Elevating Work Platforms Good Practice Toolkit

Date:

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The UK Contractors Group (UKCG) have issued a new document providing guidance on how members should safely manage the use of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWP). IPAF and the Strategic Forum for Construction Plant Safety Group also contributed to this good practice toolkit, offering a comprehensive document that includes guidance on:
- UK-based legal compliance
- procedures
- statutory regulations
- Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulations
- specification
- management
- operation

The UKCG mobile elevating work platforms good practice toolkit aims to offer a minimum standard for the use of MEWPs on work sites, fulling endorsed by IPAF as a “signposting” document to help operators and managers to ensure safe and effective powered access use. Over 60,000 MEWPs are currently in use in the UK by a wide range of industries and trades, providing a safe, reliable, versatile, and temporary method for working at height.

The starting point for any business or individual looking to hire, purchase or operate a MEWP is the appropriate IPAF powered access training, which teaches safe and effective use of boom lifts, cherry pickers, scissor lifts, personnel lifts and trailer mounted platforms. We offer powered access training at our Birmingham and Milton Keynes facilities as well as on-site training courses across the UK. Click here to download the UKCG MEWP Good Practice Toolkit.